The .XXX Stupidity Revisited
It appears that the idea of a .xxx TLD is back with a vengeance. If you think that .xxx is a good idea, you are an idiot and you should immediately stop breeding and kill yourself in order to forever remove your genes from the human gene pool.
This is nothing else but ICANN and ICM trying to extort some money from the adult industry. Most established, and popular porn sites will be pressured into buying the overpriced .xxx domain, or else they are bound to loose it to cybersquatters or competition. It is a loose-loose situation for the whole adult industry and a win-win for the top level registrars.
Since this time registration is voluntary, it also means that .xxx is absolutely useless for the purposes of filtering adult content. There is really no reason for anyone to leave their respective .com, .net or .org addresses. There is just to much issues with such a move - chiefly, loosing your google page rank. Most existing sites who buy .xxx will most likely just redirect it to their old address. Anyone claiming that this is done “to protect the children” is wrong, because it is not.
In case you are wondering, we have already figured out that a forced adult TLD would be a horrible idea around 2004.
In my personal opinion, the only possible way to protect children from pornography is supervising their computer use and possibly client side filtering adult content. If your kid is old enough to figure out how disable the filter you installed or use a proxy to bypass it, then he is old enough to watch pr0n.
It is also important to mention that figuring out how to efficiently search for high quality, free pornography is a very educational process. It teaches you the following:
- good research strategies
- fine tuning your search queries
- distinguishing real content from fakes or advertising
- identifying suspicious virus and mallware sites
- evaluating websites for legit content at a glance
- going beyond simple keyword searches (good luck searching for free porn on google)
- finding information that is not indexed (ie. passwords, or temporary download links on registration-only message boards)
All those skills are crucial research skills that will come in handy when working on their high school or college projects. In other words, at a certain age searching for pr0n and warez becomes a healthy and educational activity. 
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January 8th, 2007 at 8:53 am (2354) [Quote]
Number 4 might be a problem the first few times people look if the family uses a windows machine.
besides, there’s always limewire and bittorrent
Posted usingJanuary 8th, 2007 at 9:12 am (2355) [Quote]
It’s all part of the education process - not all the good movie and warez torrent sites have the pr0n you are looking for.
I haven’t really used LimeWire much - it’s more of my brother’s domain. I’m the torrent guy, he does the limewire stuff usually. But I think that one teaches you the same stuff as any P2P with an internal search feature (so the eMule/Donkey/whatever network also) - gaging validity of a file based on the file name/description alone.
Posted usingJanuary 8th, 2007 at 10:28 am (2356) [Quote]
Unfortunately, I spent seven years in IT Security for NASA and learned how most people get porn. I like the idea of the .xxx domain, but there is no way all porn will get moved into that domain. There are too many sites that benefit from mistyped URLs (whitehouse.com for example).
I am remembering what life was like before the internet. I recall always having access to porn anyways in the form of magazines and video tapes. At least computer activity can be monitored.
It is times like this that make me relived that I don’t have kids.
Posted usingJanuary 8th, 2007 at 12:01 pm (2357) [Quote]
Oh man - so even at NASA there are people who browse for pr0n during their work hours? lol
See, I don’t like the idea of forced .xxx because while there is no way to enforce it (ie. the free sites providing illegally ripped content will still be there in the .com space), it leaves plenty of room for abuse, censorship and unfair competitive practices.
Posted usingJanuary 9th, 2007 at 4:48 am (2359) [Quote]
And what about the obscure Russian/Japanese/(name it) sites?
How are they gonna force them to register an .xxx domain?
Maybe all the ISP’s will think that they should prevent us from looking at any porn at all, just by simply blocking any .xxx domain (if it passes through).
Back to the magazines…
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